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17 June 2025
Food importers and brokers acting on behalf of food importers.
Cases documenting the food safety requirements that apply to food imported into Australia that is intended for sale, were released on 15 June 2025. These are now incorporated into the Biosecurity Import Conditions system (BICON).
The purpose of the Australian Agriculture Sustainability Framework (AASF) is to communicate the sustainability status and goals of the Australian agricultural sector to markets and to the community.
The project will provide the whole-of-Australian agriculture narrative about sustainability to assist in market access. It will also provide a translation layer to assist supply chain companies, finance and investors to better understand and report on Australian agricultural sustainability.
Project Lead: National Farmers’ Federation (NFF)
Considering the biosecurity threats to Australia’s borders, crisis management plans are an important tool for livestock industries. However, it is unclear how many of these plans exist across livestock sectors, or if they would provide sufficient guidance to a sector in an EAD crisis.
Agricultural traceability is a shared responsibility between industry, governments and the broader agricultural supply-chain participants. The Australian Government has committed over $127 million to enhancing agricultural traceability. Activities will support action to meet the objectives of the National Agricultural Traceability Strategy 2023 to 2033.
Project Lead: Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry
Project Contact: agtracecoord@aff.gov.au
Spatial modelling will be used to better understand feral pig distributions and their ecology, enabling cost-effective strategies for feral pig management.
The data generated from this project will inform strategic decision-making within biosecurity incident responses affecting feral and domestic pig populations.
Project Lead: Queensland (QLD) Department of Primary Industries
Project Contact: Robyn.Grob@dpi.qld.gov.au
Project Status: Complete
This project aimed to evaluate the use of host microRNA (biomarker) response to detect Johne’s disease in cattle. It has provided a proof of concept for the potential use of this approach for other animal diseases.
Project Lead: Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness; Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Project Contact: animalhealthlaboratories@aff.gov.au
Project Status: Complete
This project aims to develop a suite of tests on a portable, battery-operated multiplexing qPCR platform for the detection of major emergency diseases of cattle and pigs. It also serves as a proof-of-concept for the use of this multiplexing, point-of-care qPCR platform for other emergency animal pathogens.
Project Lead: Elizabeth Macarthur Agricultural Institute; Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
This project aims to improve Australia’s LSD testing capability by strengthening the testing capability of the Australian Centre for Disease Preparedness (ACDP) and across the Laboratories for Emergency Animal Disease Diagnosis and Response (LEADDR) network.
This project will:
This project saw Mintrac partner with industry and government to deliver a suite of EAD preparedness training materials specific to abattoir personnel. This included sample standard operating procedures and an online eLearning course.
This training package was designed to help prepare abattoir staff to undertake specific management activities during an EAD response.
Project Lead: Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Project Contact: adpr@aff.gov.au
